Butterflies are a-flitting.....

Hello, and welcome!

It's already Friday and it's been a lovely day for our family.....our Yvie-Grace turned 3 years old and she had a Princess Party.....ooooo......I so wanted to dress as a princess, but I couldn't fit into any of Yvie's or Millie's pretty Disney Princess dresses, as much as I tried, ha!

Another great thing about it being Friday is that there's a brand new challenge at 

Card Crafter's Circle

This week is a our challenge for you is all about:

BUGS
show us your creations with bugs and insects!

Our sponsor 

is providing 5 lovely digi images for our randomly drawn winner.

The Design Team was provided with some really lovely images, this week, and I chose this gorgeous Heartstreak Butterfly......

A friend has asked me to make something pretty for her MIL's birthday.....she wanted it to be from her kiddles......and this is what I came up with.

The base is white scalloped card stock and I cut the base label from very pale pink Bazzil card.....I love this die......

I used a sticker from a very old sticker sheet and put it onto card, then cut around and placed it onto the base label......

I printed the pretty butterfly (4 times) and coloured with Promarkers, then cut them out....so therapeutic......I was tempted to glitter them up, then decided not, ha!  

Where did the 4th butterfly get to........hello!  How about that fussy-cutting, eh?

A little sentiment tab that was in a Forever Friends kit.......an unused kit, I might add......must do something about that, lol.......and I added the teeny gem.....

I hope the recipient likes it.

Take a gander, over on the Challenge Blog, to see the inspiration that's waiting for your perusal....there are some lovely makes from the rest of the Team....then get out your crafty bits and join in the fun!

hugs,

Anne-Marie x

Challenges:

http://flutterbywednesdays.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/flutter-by-wednesday-234.html  Flowers (with a butterfly/fairy)

http://shellysimagesblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/ttt-challenge-use-scallops.html  Use scallops

http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/  Things with wings

http://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/challenge-177anything-goes-gdt-call.html  Anything goes

http://craftingforallseasons.blogspot.co.uk/  Floral Delight

Paint the Town Red!

Hello, and welcome!

Have you had a good week?  Doing anything nice over the weekend?

Ooooo.....I sound like a hairdresser.....hahaaa!

My friend once confessed that she made things up, specifically for her visits to the hair salon, because she felt her life was too boring to add any interest to the hairdresser's attempts at conversation......now, that's funny!

There's a challenge up at  Card Crafter's Circle and it's one  that you can really "go to town" on........oh, I'm good, hahaaa!

This week at Card Crafter's Circle we invite you to:

PAINT THE TOWN RED!

... with a RED colour challenge! We ask that your creations be predominantly red, or all red! We are excited to introduce a new this week, Digi Darlas Designs!!



One randomly drawn winner will receive their choice of five (5) digital images from  Digi Darlas Designs! ... thank you for such a generous prize!

Just about any kind of image could be  treated to a red colour palette, so it was a hard task to choose something from our fabby sponsor.....so many great images!......oh, life is just soooo hard, at times....hahaaaa!

My final choice was this little delight......Colorful Sailboat........

 I love sailboats.....to look at......from far away.......but I don't like the sea, so you'll never get me on one, lol.......

Sandy coloured paper (K & Co) was used as the background, and I embossed two strips of red card with a Cuttlebug Swirl folder.  The oh-so-pretty boat (ship?) was coloured with a mix of Promarkers and Spectrum Noirs and cut out with a Spellbinder's die........

The sweet sentiment is from Lilli of the Valley and was placed onto a  small Nestie label.....two pieces of Card Candi helped to frame it...........and there you have it.......clean and  simple!

See?  That wasn't hard, was it?  Pop over to the challenge blog to have a peek at what the Design Team came up with.....wonderful stuff!

hugs,

Anne-Marie x

Challenges:

http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.co.uk/  Anything goes

http://charismacardz.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-6-anything-goes.html  Anything goes

http://qkrstampede.blogspot.co.uk/  Anything goes